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Twitch Plays Pokemon Community Thread: We're Here Forever
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Temathael
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Hyperactivity
Banned
What are you saying, Platinum had a clearly defined team the earliest to anything but FireRed, when you compare times as to when we had our full team all leveled up across runs, Platinum is in 2nd
Sorry should've clarified. I wasn't referring to when the team was assembled; I meant most were shit potential wise- i.e. most people thought these weren't going to be of any use later in the game.
Shinx- never evolved, was pretty shit late game
Golbat- wasn't that great really
Flareon- already had a huge stigma attached to it, no one expected the worst eeveelution to be useful
Roserade- people were counting it out since the beginning since most didn't expect it to evolve
Bibarel- lol the prime example. no one would've EVER predicted the shit HM slave to be a powerhouse at the end
Bronzong was the only one that was useful on paper
Point being that you never know what's going to happen with TPP. That's part of the whole thing. It's a bit futile to plan meticulously so far ahead as to what will be viable or what will be a good counter since anything could happen.
I do agree that it sucks to lose a good Pokemon especially lore-wise, but I don't think the game is lost. I think it will get A LOT harder and some will definitely tune out, but with enough grinding anyone can be beat.
Okay so we finally got the Rising Badge from the Dragon's Den.....But, as we were leaving to get the TM from Clair, we digged out, cancelling the TM event altogether and forcing us to redo the gym puzzle if we want the TM which also activates the Dratini event. Sigh.
Also, here are sprites of all the randomized gym leaders:
"Jet" Falkner (as both his pokemon had Aqua Jet and no type theme), Ground Bugsy, Steel Whitney, Rock Morty, Poison Pryce, Fighting Chuck, Dragon Jasmine, and most recently Dark Clair (once again, pretty fitting for her). Clair had a team of Honchcrow, Sneasel, Sableye, and another Honchcrow. Defeating her was Kenya's final gift to us.
And this is the last known image of Kenya with the team:
As well as the new version of ATV and (what's left of his) friends, now starring Trumpinch:
Hopefully we can move on from this loss, with our new savior Treesus:
Also, here are sprites of all the randomized gym leaders:
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"Jet" Falkner (as both his pokemon had Aqua Jet and no type theme), Ground Bugsy, Steel Whitney, Rock Morty, Poison Pryce, Fighting Chuck, Dragon Jasmine, and most recently Dark Clair (once again, pretty fitting for her). Clair had a team of Honchcrow, Sneasel, Sableye, and another Honchcrow. Defeating her was Kenya's final gift to us.
And this is the last known image of Kenya with the team:
As well as the new version of ATV and (what's left of his) friends, now starring Trumpinch:
Hopefully we can move on from this loss, with our new savior Treesus:
Source
Ah dammit.
And here I thought we were doing so well, getting 8 badges in such a short while.
Welp. Expect a lot of grinding now unless we luck out with another legendary or slaking.
edit: whatever happened to the smartness of the last run to equip everybody with mail.
And here I thought we were doing so well, getting 8 badges in such a short while.
Welp. Expect a lot of grinding now unless we luck out with another legendary or slaking.
edit: whatever happened to the smartness of the last run to equip everybody with mail.
You know how the touch screen is used for EVERYTHING in HGSS? That includes the trash button. It takes like 1 guy to trash everythign we own, only there isn't one guy attempting to trash our stuff, there's a group of like 5-10. And in HGSS it's harder to counter this because b+direction doesnt exit from touch screen menus, only b does. This also makes it easier to take off mail, which we've done plenty of times on accident.
Just today when trying to teach waterfall to something (which was all for naught anyway because we just deposited the mon we taught it to) we ended up trashing over half our items including the exp share. And then when we tried to mail our pokemon shortly before the release happened, we ended up trashing all that too.
This also makes releases ridiculously easy, so I'm surprised it took this long for one to happen.
Wyndstryker
Member
This is how I see things too. There is no point to put any team expectations in TPP, there are too many variables to expect a "good" team. Just take it as it comes. If the whole team gets released right before the champion, well it just makes the run longer, more to the lore and people will get a new team. Planning goes out the window when there's this many variables too.
ratcliffja
Member
Dratini is... flameslash?!? So conflicted...
ratcliffja
Member
Drought causes instant sunny day, right? That seems great for our ground team.
Edit: wait that's Groudon's normal ability... Kenya is that you?
The Dratini was a Sandslash. And it has drought. I'm dying here.
Drought is also Groudon's signature ability in the normal games, if you didn't know.
Drought is also Groudon's signature ability in the normal games, if you didn't know.
Hyperactivity
Banned
Holy shit, run might be redeemed extremely quickly
Invokes the spirit of both even more as it has Crabhammer
Hyperactivity
Banned
So we have developed a bit of a situation in the TPP subreddit....
Arguably the main lore contributor these days, ZetsuTheFirst, has had a bunch of copy usernames made, such as Z3tsuTheFirst, ZetsuTheFist, etc.
I mean, a BUNCH
And then someone also did something similar to everyle
It's all incredibly humorous
Like this more than my theory
Sandlash and Shedinja (Brian or Shedinja story coming up, feel somewhat bad for what I said now) by Griever 13_37
Thse events have been kickstarting the community like crazy lately, one thing I like about this run is that there has been a ton of artwork to always post, more than at least the last 3-4
I don't think I've seen the community jump back so fast ever, especially after a top 5 setback right here
Arguably the main lore contributor these days, ZetsuTheFirst, has had a bunch of copy usernames made, such as Z3tsuTheFirst, ZetsuTheFist, etc.
I mean, a BUNCH
And then someone also did something similar to everyle
It's all incredibly humorous
A portion of shenanigans? Certainly. Would you like a side order of Brendan with that?- by Everyle (the original one)
Kenya Needs To His Job, Dammit- by DirtyTabs
Like this more than my theory
Sandlash and Shedinja (Brian or Shedinja story coming up, feel somewhat bad for what I said now) by Griever 13_37
Thse events have been kickstarting the community like crazy lately, one thing I like about this run is that there has been a ton of artwork to always post, more than at least the last 3-4
I don't think I've seen the community jump back so fast ever, especially after a top 5 setback right here
Wow I just convinced the chat to give the masterball to a pokemon, and we succeeded. Sandslash now holds the masterball. We can do this. We can catch that Ho-oh and stick it to the assholes who wanted to release our legendary by getting a new one--this time one that we will earn.
Hyperactivity
Banned
Good job man
Shenanigans of the Future Past- One by ZetsuTheFirst
All by Kelcyus
Had to make up for the lack of posting these comics, as along with the "Voices" series this is my favorite series
NO ONE WAS PAYING ATTENTION AND WE MANAGED TO GET TRAPINCH TO EVOLVE INTO VIBRAVA! YES!
Unfortunately, Vibrava actually has a lower attack stat than trapinch, and that caused us to lose to the final kimono girl by a 1 hp margin.
Edit: Ability is Arena Trap. Funny since that's usually Trapinch's ability.
Edit 2: Some art by Pokeapache in commemoration of our second evolution this run:
Let's hope for 2 more, and that Ho-oh to fill our final slot.
Unfortunately, Vibrava actually has a lower attack stat than trapinch, and that caused us to lose to the final kimono girl by a 1 hp margin.
Edit: Ability is Arena Trap. Funny since that's usually Trapinch's ability.
Edit 2: Some art by Pokeapache in commemoration of our second evolution this run:
Let's hope for 2 more, and that Ho-oh to fill our final slot.
redmetal86
Member
Did they already try to catch Ho-oh?
bobawesome
Member
I agree. I don't understand why everything has to be beaten to death. It was good as a once-off but it's really lost its appeal, in my opinion.
Not sure if it's hilarious or sad, but we actually managed to get to Ho-oh with the masterball, only to go into the bag and touch the ball then immediately back out and run. I don't even know what to say about that.
It was a level 45 Phione, so not the greatest loss, but goddamnit we were one press away from fucking catching it. And now going back down bell tower with a master ball pretty much guarantees we catch some shit mon with it in here, and that shit gets stuck on our team.
It was a level 45 Phione, so not the greatest loss, but goddamnit we were one press away from fucking catching it. And now going back down bell tower with a master ball pretty much guarantees we catch some shit mon with it in here, and that shit gets stuck on our team.
redmetal86
Member
Wow....a couple of hours after I asked about it, and I still missed it. Lol at Phione though.
ratcliffja
Member
Apparently we caught a cranidos which if evolved had higher base stats than phione anyway. Plus it fits the ground/rock theme.
Hyperactivity
Banned
YES Vibrava hype
If you followed the runs, you would see that even if a few elements are repeated, every single run is very VERY different. Red never had as crazy of an E4 challenge, never had Dance Riots, never had a flying Slaking rollover the E4, never had a lore like Crystal's etc.
In fact, the lore is the greatest part of this imo, funny or serious, and in that respect Red is actually outclassed by next to all the other runs
Risking the PC isn't worth it, even if it didn't turn out that terribly this time.
So we finally got to the E4, and for the first time ever we can't even get past the first guy. We're so fucked for this E4, this is worse than Emerald. Will is ground type it seems, so far all we've seen is Steelix, Quagsire, and Hippowdon.
Also we caught a Banette(good pokemon, shitty moves) and Ariados(bad pokemon, good moveset) so now there's a lot of argument about what to keep and what to PC or if we should PC at all. Hopefully we can teach Banette some TMs, dump Ariados in the PC, and catch something else in VR like an Octillery.
Also we caught a Banette(good pokemon, shitty moves) and Ariados(bad pokemon, good moveset) so now there's a lot of argument about what to keep and what to PC or if we should PC at all. Hopefully we can teach Banette some TMs, dump Ariados in the PC, and catch something else in VR like an Octillery.
everyday math
Banned
We need to grind. To low leveled.
everyday math
Banned
It's Dome!
ratcliffja
Member
Oh cool, looks like we're about to box/release the whole team.
Edit: called it.
Edit: called it.